bulan-bulanan

English translation: object of scorn and ridicule

00:57 Dec 18, 2017
Indonesian to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy / dalam artikel penelitian sejarah Ranggalawe
Indonesian term or phrase: bulan-bulanan
segera melihat kepada Ranggalawe yang sudah tak berdaya, Ki Mahesa kemudian memenggal lehernya hingga terputus dari tubuhnya, kemudian kepalanya dibuat bulan-bulanan
Desti Ruhiyati
Indonesia
Local time: 23:54
English translation:object of scorn and ridicule
Explanation:
This logically fits the context. I can't access the Stevens dictionary right now to confirm, but I think usually this term means "target of bullying","butt of a practical joke" and the like.
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Edward Thornton
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2object of scorn and ridicule
Edward Thornton
5[became] an object of brutal onslaught
Regi2006
5object of mockery
ErichEko ⟹⭐
3toyed
Ikram Mahyuddin


  

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object of scorn and ridicule


Explanation:
This logically fits the context. I can't access the Stevens dictionary right now to confirm, but I think usually this term means "target of bullying","butt of a practical joke" and the like.

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agree  Titi Sayeed
2 days 11 hrs

agree  Kristian Wijaya: The Synonym of 'bulan-bulanan' in Indonesia is 'target or object', and mostly it is for toying around, not necessarily physically damaging.
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[became] an object of brutal onslaught


Explanation:
The savage fiends shot two long necked birds in just two days - firing bolts through the defenceless critters' skulls and backs. Incredibly the resilient waterfowl survived the brutal onslaught and are now being nursed ...
https://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/708782/thugs-shoot-goo...

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Note added at 1 hr (2017-12-18 02:01:23 GMT)
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Kalau menurut bayangan saya, kepala yang sudah terputus dari leher tersebut ditendang-tendang dan diinjak (onslaught: fierce attack).
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/onslaught

Regi2006
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object of mockery


Explanation:

⚽ Saya bayangkan kepala Ranggalawe dipegang pada rambutnya, lalu diejek dan dikata-katai (mocked), sebelum akhirnya ditendang bagaikan ⚽ ke sana ke mari.

★彡 SURHAYA
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/19zkra/is_it...
It's kind of difficult to marry the two accounts: the one with Crassus being beheaded and his head then being treated as an object of mockery during a spontaneous performance in front of the king, and the other with the Parthians pouring gold into the mouth of his corpse.

https://books.google.co.id/books?isbn=0195189604
Disciples of All Nations: Pillars of World Christianity
Lamin O. Sanneh - 2008 - ‎History
Responding to their defiance, the proconsul Saturninus read out a sentence of death, and twelve of them, seven men and five women, were immediately beheaded, creating the Scillian martyrs. Even in their death the ''Christians were made an object of mockery: covered with animal skins, they were torn to pieces by dogs; ...

https://books.google.co.id/books?id=X4dAAAAAcAAJ
Samuel Burder - 1822
Out of scorn, and dislike of the Jew who desired to wear the regal title, a half-crazy man, who was frequently an object of mockery to the idle mob, was brought forward...



ErichEko ⟹⭐
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toyed


Explanation:
Maksudnya mungkin dipermainkan. Bisa juga memilih sinonimnya

Her little brother's skull was toyed with by another as if it were a ball with a purpose to amuse a child.

http://newarcana.forumotion.com/t4732-that-one-night


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Note added at 1 hari 1 jam (2017-12-19 02:53:15 GMT)
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Maaf, tepatnya "toyed with"

Ikram Mahyuddin
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